A few nice extinct animals images I found:
Emú (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Image by desdibuix - miquel
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L'emú (Dromarius novaehollandiae) és l'ocell nadiu més gran d'Austràlia i l'únic membre existent del gènere Dromaius. És també el segon ocell més gran al món després de l'estruç.
Els emus són d'un color castany suau, arriben a mesurar 2 metres d'alçada i pesen en torn dels 45 kg. Són nomades, movent-se grans distàncies per a alimentar-se de plantes i insectes. Poden arribar als 50 km/h durant diversos kilòmetres.
The Emu , Dromaius novaehollandiae, is the largest bird native to Australia and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. It is also the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. The soft-feathered, brown, flightless birds reach up to 2 m (6.5 ft) in height. The Emu is common over most of mainland Australia, although it avoids heavily populated areas, dense forest and arid areas. Emus can travel great distances at a fast, economical trot and, if necessary, can sprint at 50 km/h (30 mph) for some distance at a time.[3] They are opportunistically nomadic and may travel long distances to find food; they feed on a variety of plants and insects.
The Emu subspecies that previously inhabited Tasmania became extinct after the European settlement of Australia in 1788; and the distribution of the mainland subspecies has been influenced by human activities. Once common on the east coast, Emu are now uncommon; by contrast, the development of agriculture and the provision of water for stock in the interior of the continent have increased the range of the Emu in arid regions. Emus are farmed for their meat, oil and leather.
Boston Museum of Science | Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age | American Mastodon, front-on view
Image by Chris Devers
Quoting from the inscription:
Shorter and stockier than their mammoth cousins, mastodons separated from the rest of the proboscidean family tree millions of years ago. Though similar to mammoths, mastodons ended differently shaped skulls, tusks, and teeth.
At one time, mastodons ranged from Europe to North America. However, turing the late Pleistocene or last Ice Age, only the American mastodon (Mammat americanum) still survived. The last Eurasian mastodon (Mammat bernseni (?) went extinct several million years earlier.
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Photos from the Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age exhibit at the Museum of Science. Quoting from their description:
Travel back to a time when humans shared the stage with woolly giants! Examine full-scale replicas of massive Ice Age mammals, including Lyuba, a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered by a Siberian reindeer herder in 2007. The exhibit also features some of the oldest art in existence, huge skulls and tusks, weird and wonderful mammoth relatives, and mastodon bones collected by William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame) for President Thomas Jefferson's own collection.
This exhibition was created by The Field Museum, Chicago.
WILD HORSES
Image by Fool-On-The-Hill
a herd of Wild Horses west of Simpson Springs on the Pony Express Trail,Utah. part of the Onaqui herd of Mustangs. Utah has about 2,000-4,000 Wild Horses, mostly in the west(Great Basin) desert, but also in the Bookcliffs and San Rafael Swell. Horses are not historically native to North America, and are really feral and not wild, descended from escapees from the Spanish and later anglo settlers. at one time there were millions of them living free in the deserts and prairies of the west, now around 30,000 or so. there were types of horses native during the Pleistocene here, but they all went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
